Gang beat man and threatened to bury him alive in Brede High Woods

Published:15:45Friday 14 March 2014

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A GANG of men who tied up a student and beat him with a hammer before threatening to bury him alive in Brede High Woods, have been convicted.

Sam Simon lured the 21-year-old victim, who was a friend of his, to a house in East Street, Hastings, before he, his brother Alex Simon and their friend Muhammet Yalcin tied the student up, gagged him and then punched, kicked and beat him with a hammer.

They then stuffed him into a body bag, loaded him into a car and were driven to Brede High Wood by Artur Oganesyan where they all discussed burying the student alive before they assaulted him again.

The two-hour ordeal on 19 September ended when the men took their terrified victim back to Hastings and released him in the street.

The 21-year-old suffered broken teeth, cuts and severe bruises and had to be treated at Conquest Hospital.

Officers quickly arrested Alex Simon, Yalcin and Oganesyan and within a few days Sam Simon had also been arrested.

After the first arrests, Jowad Ghemati approached the victim and offered him thousands of pounds to drop the case.